Rift: Planes of Telara
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There is no hard mode Regulos. There are four hard mode encounters and they are all earlier bosses in Endless Eclipse and Frozen Tempest.
Technically there's Hard Mode Ember Conclave from back in ID, although my guild found it the easiest mode and killed it that way the first time regardless. Bonus loot for us. It was actually a really fun fight with a lot of chaos.
Heallun
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http://www.riftgame.com/en/promo/freetoplay.php
As do I. If their promo is to be believed:http://www.riftgame.com/en/promo/freetoplay.php-- It's quite possibly the least restrictive F2P ever. I played through HK so we'll see what has happened since. Rather liked RoS
Ambiturner
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River of Souls, the second raid released was just a gigantic nightmarish mess of trash.
And I agree about what Ambiturner said re: Secret World. TSW was almost entirely trash pack (which frequently teased some boss abilities) -> boss -> trash pack -> boss, etc. Made the dungeons much less tedious to run.
Some of the RoS fights were pretty good. I didn't really mind them except that there was so much trash it made me want to kill myself. I think there was someone in FOH that actually died while playing.
Yeah, I actually liked the fights I experienced in there. Honestly, I was pretty happy with Rift raid design in general (stopped raiding before Hammerknell, so I can't comment on anything past that). But god, the trash in RoS was just inexcusable. Pretty much the only thing I've experienced that comes close to the pain of later AQ40 trash (pre-C'thun especially)
It's free to play this weekend too, so you don't have to wait till the 12th to hop in. Of course, you'll have to wait from Tuesday till the 12th to log in again, but you can get a taste now to see if you want to enjoy it again.
I reinstalled it and am having some bit of fun, not sure it'll re-hook me again.
Not sure if this is normal, but I have SL expansion access on my account for some reason. I logged in Thursday for the free play weekend, and it let me take the quests to SL and even level up to 52 so far. The email didn't say anything about SL access for free, and from what I read of the F2P faq, you still have to buy SL in order to access it and the new soul and whatnot. I'm not gonna complain. Of course, come the 12th, we'll see if I can still log in to that character or not or whatever. I should specify I can use the new souls too, as that seems to be gated behind buying SL as well.
I reinstalled it and am having some bit of fun, not sure it'll re-hook me again.
Not sure if this is normal, but I have SL expansion access on my account for some reason. I logged in Thursday for the free play weekend, and it let me take the quests to SL and even level up to 52 so far. The email didn't say anything about SL access for free, and from what I read of the F2P faq, you still have to buy SL in order to access it and the new soul and whatnot. I'm not gonna complain. Of course, come the 12th, we'll see if I can still log in to that character or not or whatever. I should specify I can use the new souls too, as that seems to be gated behind buying SL as well.
I like trash mobs the first time(in a theme park MMO)... past that, it's more frustrating than anything unless it's a rep grind. :/
Heallun
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Grim1
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Think the Raptr deal is still going on. You can get the expansion for free by just leaving the game on at the log in screen for 14(?) hours with the Raptr client up. It will disconnect you but as long as you don't hit the "ok" button, you'll still get credit.
Woefully Inept
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They actually did a pass on the trash at some point and it was still awful.
I really enjoyed the Alsbeth fight in RoS. There wasn't enough damage going around that you ever felt like you were in any real danger of wiping, but I always enjoyed executing the mechanics.